I used the following commands and the side chains came alright.
ball-and-stick require not either atom N, atom C or atom O
and in type PHE; ! Side chain ball and stick.
The trick is to use CA included.
Hope this works
-Murali
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Dr. Ramachandran Murali
Dept. of Pathology & Lab.of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
243 John Morgan Building,Philadelphia, PA 19104
E-mail: murali at xray.med.upenn.edu; Phone 215-573-9256;Fax 215-898-2401.
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On 29 Aug 1996, Phoebe Rice wrote:
> > From: 3lcid at qucdn.queensu.ca (Carl)
> >
> > Subject: molscript and side chains
> >
> > Date: 28 Aug 1996 21:00:00 GMT
> >
> > Does anyone know how to get side chains to connect with a ribbon
> > trace when using molscript? I believe the documentation says that the
> > ribbon does not go through the C alpha position since it is smoothed.
> > The way it is now I have a residue floating in space and although I
> > can
> > fix it slightly by rotating the molecule I would prefer the original
> > orientation. Does anyone know it there is a fix for this or a way to
> > "trick" the program into joining the side chain to the ribbon. Thanks
> > for any advice.
> >
> > Carl DeLuca
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>> I move the molscript o/p to the mac, use a shareware program called
> EPSconverter to make it readable, and then edit the postscript file with
> Adobe Illustrator. Its MUCH easier to put the labels on this way too.
> (but I am not endorsing any particular vendors for Illustrator ;) )
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>> Phoebe Rice
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